Leighton Model Farm Railway

[axlecounter]

I'm referring to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton_Hall,_Powys#Home_Farm:_Model_Farm_Buildings

Does anybody know more of the railway that went through this model farm in Wales?
Can't seem to find any useful information about it a part from the confirmation that there actually was a railway and that wikipedia talks about a broad gauge.

 

[PeterC]

I'm referring to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton_Hall,_Powys#Home_Farm:_Model_Farm_Buildings

Does anybody know more of the railway that went through this model farm in Wales?
Can't seem to find any useful information about it a part from the confirmation that there actually was a railway and that wikipedia talks about a broad gauge.

Reading the articles there seem to have been two. A funicular to move slurry to a storage tank on the hill from where it could be piped to the fields as fertiliser and the "broad gauge" within the building complex.

As the latter is described as being within the farm buildings it may have been nothing more than rails permitting heavy loads to me moved on dollies.

EDIT
I have just found another article at http://www.leightonnews.com/history/leighton-hall-and-home-farm-estate/
which suggests that the rails were for moving fodder from the storage barn to the indoor animal housing.

 

[axlecounter]

By reading the term "railway" I immediately assumed that it was a "real" one, connected to somewhere else, but of course you may be very well right instead, thanks for pointing it out.

 

[PeterC]

Personally I find small scale industrial lines, even if dependent on manual propulsion, a topic of interest.